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Taste:

Finish:

Medium, sour oak wood and toffee, slightly drying

Overall:

Much more full-bodied and refined flavours than found in the Hakushu 12 year old expression. The freshness and pine are still here but only just. The peat smoke has also taken on a fruity ‘tangerine’-like quality. At first this seems less complex until you realise the flavours are just more integrated in this expression, the additional years of maturation have really moved this Hakushu expression into a different class from the 12 year old.